Creativity: The Soul's Instinctive Blossoming

Like Aronofsky's "Pi" capturing the template of physical reality, and likewise "The Fountain" all of consciousness, our physical universe is comprised of unseen forces of energy. Obtaining such knowledge from your higher source of being, as David Lynch explains in the video on creativity, is the goal of every master. Alex Grey, our century's greatest prophet, is no low-level trafficker of information energy. He is a top-tier smuggler of high-volume energetic conceptualizations straight from the nether. Grey's 'Painting:'

 

"Universal Creativity,

Infuse my work with spirit
to feed the hungry souls."

Here, "Universal Creativity" is shown as an entity from behind, while the painter channels information as an energy conduit. Other famous painters are also watching the artist. The painter's easel is spilling with the painter's unfolding, glowing soul. Grey describes this process as well:

 "The highest motivation for creating art is Transcendental Inspiration,

Which naturally arises out of Spiritual Intoxication."
At birth, every human is an inspirational conduit. As an infant, I remember looking at the cross-hatched wallpaper above me, and seeing the lines squeeze and ebb like earthworms, inciting a waking nightmare. At birth, humans are the ultimate energetic sources housed in pure, blissful soul. Humans remain conduits of inspiration by maintaining the following:
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A) Altruism. Wanting to help others spiritually will expand your capabilities, as altruism enlightens, and is the seedling of all transcendental forces. 

B) Purity. Recognizing that most of the universe is to be experienced, instead of labeled and classified, develops your ability to harness inspiration in new forms.

C) Intuition. Expanding your consciousness through meditation will give you intuition- the natural instincts of 'what to do next.' It can not let you down.
D) Love.

Alan Moore does not make light of this creative process either:

"I've always sympathised with Brian Eno's theory, that if you were a mechanic you'd want to know what to look for under the hood if the car seized up. I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality."

Alan Moore would also be considered a high-volume energy-information trafficker. There's also Surrealist painter Salvador Dali. From the introduction of his book:
“I am the tool! Dali said to me one day, and this tool is that of an artisan: he who digs to the bottom of his trade, he whom centuries of skill have perfected, disciplined, and strengthened, and the tool of good usage, the tool of tradition, ...crazy to go to the farthest point, to the deepest spot, to the greatest crazy with attitudes."

"The greatest psychologists themselves not knowing where madness begins nor where genius ends...”

-Salvador Dali, Three Sphinxes

Creativity is the ultimate untapped power for all of mankind. Opening this vault can realign everything in one's life. Creativity is a process of absorbing (subconsciously) and interpreting (consciously) that, for artists, synchronizes every facet of their life into a divine masterpiece. For many people whose inspirational gateways have yet to be opened,

 Fear not. Artist Luke Brown has plenty of room in his inspirational gateway for yearning minds to enter:

These artists must be put to the forefront of our culture's role models. In ancient times, right-brained cultures thrived and depended on imagination (See From Hell post). In modern times, fragmented perceptions of each other and of our place in the universe are disjointing the brilliant transcendental connections we should be experiencing. Artists, writers, directors, and those in pursuit of delivering their understanding of higher transcendency are known as Lightworkers. According to www.in5d.com, a meditation website:

"Lightworkers are people who have chosen to seek spiritual knowledge and have made the choice to do their part to assist Earth and Mankind in their ascension.

Lightworker is a term given to those who are actively on the spiritual path. ...It is when the individual makes the conscious choice to begin their spiritual path and assist others that they become a Lightworkers. 

One by one, lightworkers with incredible intuition are becoming activated for the same common purpose this blog is dedicated toward. These lightworkers have a body of work that contain the ultimate templates to our consciousness. And now, high-grade wisdom siphoned from the scintillating seraphic spheres of Alex Grey's art psalms:

"The soul dreams itself awake
And what strange dreams you artists make
Culture is our collective dream
Through poet's tongue.
And musicians sound

The painters touch and smell the vision

Like an eruption of consciousness,
We discover the source of love.
Experience yourself as the source,

And Appreciate every moment as perfection."

Tap In(to) The Light!

-SubTemplum

This weekend, I had a life changing experience. At a party on Orchard street, a guy from Madison Area Technical College had accompanied his friends to a party of UW Madison kids. They called him Rainman. While he appeared ragged, his viewpoints were astonishing. He spoke relatively plain, with a slight husky drawl, glowing with a strange hint of something I could not seem to trace. He was arguing that man has the power to change the planet on a personal level.
"What is that in your voice, I'm feeling something in your voice, what is that?" I urged him.
"Have you been enlightened?" He asked, fixing a serious gaze through me.
"No, but I'm on the way," I replied.
"Then you know what it's about." he spoke. It clicked. Rainman was enlightened. He was speaking with unmistakable experience in his voice. I was locked into the resonating grip of his words.
"I can say something, and telling it to one person could change the whole world," he said. 
"No it couldn't," was the reply from his opponent.
"Humans have the ability to change everything."
"He's absolutely right," I said automatically.


Thus far, I've explained that the pineal gland syncs our dreamworld with our physical bodies. Similarly, death is the ultimate stage in perceiving reality. Alex Grey depicts this incredible awareness:

Lebanese poet, artist and prophet, Khalil Ghibran, writes in his famous poem "The Prophet:"
“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honor. For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?”  ...It is life in quest of life in bodies that fears the grave.”

 What is this all about? Reaching enlightenment. Allow the professional to explain:

David Lynch Speaks on Consciousness and Creativity

“This pure Consciousness is called by modern physicists the “Unified Field.” It’s at the base of all mind and all matter. This field has qualities: bliss, intelligence, creativity, universal love, energy, and peace. It’s the experiencing of it that does everything. ...Enlightenment is the full potential of all of us human beings" - David Lynch.


What is he saying? There is far more to this reality than we think. Rainman's enlightenment became a spiritual life vest to me, as his words locked into my being with incredible power and synchronicity. I had never heard of nor experienced this, and immediately became living proof that words could change the world. That night, I felt the shift in me, which became the foundation to the awareness of my own true potential and ability to convey this message to others. Milwaukee artist and MIAD student Ben Grauer represents the hypocrisy of adults' misleading words and actions, while true awareness is derived from unifying wavelengths:

 David Lynch's theory of "golf ball" to "basketball-sized consciousness" is best exemplified by his 2008 Movie "Inland Empire." This movie is the ultimate labyrinth, and to wade through its tense and twisted plot is to stretch your experience to the edge. To dissect a David Lynch movie, which are up to 100% individual interpretation, one can categorize characters by their degrees of 'earthly presence:'

Main Characters: Usually in the third dimensional, physical universe climate, accustomed to seeing time from start to finish.
Phantoms: These may be characters bordering the dreamworld, and sometimes materialize in reality by a glitch in the fabric of time-space. (Mulholland drive: The nightmare in the alleyway, Inland Empire: the terrifying face).
Operators: These characters are aware of the full plot in ways the audience and other characters do not grasp, even after seeing the movie. They see time simultaneously. They may operate in any point in time, between realms, or create a glitch in the fabric of time-space. (Erasherhead: Man with levers, Mulholland Drive: Albino Cowboy, Lost Highway: Albino man).
Crones: These women have clairvoyant abilities that allow them to prophesize trouble in the realm of time-space, and warn the main characters ahead of time. (Inland Empire: Polish Gypsy-Neighbor, Mulholland Drive: Woman shouting "Trouble!")
Unraveling these movies can be very similar to unraveling Donnie Darko. Both types of movie have transcendental characteristics. With David Lynch, the level required for probing for the truth is more likely to completely dismantle your previous formation of perceptions.
Khalil Ghibran complements this philosophy that Lynch utilizes:


“Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end. Life, and all that lives, is conceived in the mist and not in the crystal. And who knows but a crystal is mist in decay?”

The power is ours!

-Subtemplum

Darren Aronofsky

 

If you have not seen the Fountain, then you are most likely deprived of channeling the ultimate possible awareness of our position in the galaxy. Those who have seen it are usually displeased by the plot, because it is too enigmatic. That's simply because there is nobody on hand who can explain the concepts in the film. The concepts in the movie are extremely transcendental, and it requires the widest possible scope of this spiritual science to fully decipher. This 2006 Darren Aronofsky epic directly translates to the concepts already discussed in this blog, especially in the realm of Alan Moore. In the graphic novel Watchmen, Professor Manhattan is the superhero with ultimate capabilities in the spectrum of matter and time. He sees everything as happening simultaneously, exactly the way the fourth dimension contains all of time at once (see the third post about Alan Moore's "From Hell"). Edwin A. Abott, noted Shakespearean scholar, wrote the mind-blowing tale about the second, third and fourth dimension called Flatland.

What makes the The Fountain transcendental?

1. Three planes of time happening at once: the Conquistador crusades in Mexico, the modern day, and a timeless bubble through eternity. Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz's characters appear as different entities in all three. In the bubble through eternity, Rachel Weisz is represented as a tree, from which her character in the modern day time spectrum fertilized with her dead body.

2. Hugh Jackman seeks to scientifically cure any disease that kills humans through genetic technology. He is bitter and ruthless in his desire to find the cure to death in the modern day scenes, only to undergo intense spiritual transformations in the conquistador and bubble time frames. Before dying and being reborn in the first timeframe as a conquistador, he is killed by the Mayan Lord of Xibalba who says "Death is the road to awe." This becomes the book that Rachel Weisz's character writes in modern day and gives to Hugh Jackman to finish. 

3. According to the IMDB trivia, "Instead of using CGI, Aronofsky chose to do the special effects for the film by using micro-photography of chemical reactions on tiny petri dishes. He has said that CGI would take away from the timelessness of the film and that he wants the film to stand the test of time."

4. The death and rebirth of characters mirrors the Hindu / Buddhist concept called Samsara which refers to a stream of consciousness passing from the physical world and into the spiritual upon death, and that is the concept of immortality that Hugh Jackman realizes is even more powerful than living. When he understands this toward the end of the movie, the camera pans to the middle of his forehead, where his third eye is seated, and he then sees everything happen at once.

Point number 4 directly relates to the Pink Floyd title track off the album "Atom Heart Mother." As the song unfolds, an interesting blend of sound effects foreshadows the type of sounds in the 24 minute song. About 20 minutes into the song, the song replays itself in a sped-up backwards fashion that contorts reality. This section of the song is called "Remergence." Also the same concept as Alex Grey's representation of the soul's ultimate evolution:

"Death is the road to awe" is truly applicable to both life and death, since both are interconnected.

Aronofsky also defines the blueprints to our material world with his first movie, Pi. In Pi, the greatest concept is that of nature's perfect geometry. Desperately seeking to understand the patterns of the stock market, Max goes beyond the edge of his human experience to understand, albeit briefly, the ultimate relationships between spiral conch shells, ants, and the entire universe. Panning between shots in The Fountain, Aronofsky blends nature with greater images of the universe. Professor Tim Allen, at UW-Madison, also uses this concept to teach "Plants and Man," his famed class on rethinking our universe. Manly Hall writes:

"...Man himself, with in the narrow confines of whose nature they found manifested all the mysteries of the external spheres. Continuing this analogy, the universe was regarded as a man and, conversely, man as a miniature

universe. The greater universe was termed the Macrocosm--the Great World or Body--and the Divine Life or spiritual entity controlling its functions was called the Macroprosophus. Man's body, or the individual human universe, was termed the Microcosm, and the Divine Life or spiritual entity controlling its functions was called the Microprosophus."

This is a real doctrine of learning! The Occult aspect of society has been exactly that - hidden - and now the real identity of our spiritual selves is emerging to all through great researchers of our time like David Icke. If you enjoy the Occult, you should start by watching the very informative documentary Esoteric Agenda.

Manly Hall continues:

"H. P. Blavatsky summarizes the pagan concept of man as follows: "Man is a little world--a microcosm inside the great

universe. Like a fetus, he is suspended, by all his three spirits, in the matrix of the macrocosmos; and while his terrestrial body is in constant sympathy with its parent earth, his astral soul lives in unison."

And, to cap off everything this blog has touched on so far, Blavatsky continues:

"This is the trinity of organic and inorganic nature--the spiritual and the physical, which are three in one, and of which Proclus says that 'The first monad is the Eternal God; the second, eternity; the third, the paradigm, or pattern of the universe;' the three constituting the Intelligible Triad."

Pi and The Fountain are great movies, and if you enjoyed Requiem for a Dream, I suggest you watch these movies immediately. They will rock you to the core!

Faithfully,

-Subtemplum